Liz has the video of a new TV spot from Bruno's Senate Republican Campaign Committee that started running last weekend in Nassau County. The ad, titled "Unspeakable", is targeted against freshman state Senator Craig Johnson an uses a cardboard cutout of Johnson as a foil for some really lame and utterly baseless jabs. Take a look:
As Liz notes, the ad accuses Johnson of voting for huge cuts to health care funding. Of course, this was a one house BS bill that was introduced solely to put Senate Dems on the record so that they could, ya know, make BS TV spots. Also, the ad bashes Johnson for supporting "a plan to give away $66 million dollars of state aid for Long Island schools". Of course, Johnson's district received $25 million bucks in state aid for education, more than any other district on Long Island. There's even a "question", thoroughly unsourced, about his supposed support for a plan to "raise the property taxes for hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders. For the life of me, I have no idea what this bit is about. Apparenty, I'm not the only one. Liz quotes Johnson as saying, "I have no idea what they're talking about."
Of course, none of the "questions" in the ad can be answered because they are addressed to that cardboard cutout. It reminded me of this high point in Republican accountability.
